Lib Dem Action for Norwood

Published on Sat 29th Apr 2006

Lib Dems introduced street crime wardens to Norwood

Lib Dems have fought for funding to help regenerate the shopping and industrial areas in Norwood and to attract new businesses. Over the last four years we've made good progress by improving parking facilities and sprucing up the streets.

The development of the Lansdowne Hill market site for regular farmers', continental and arts & crafts markets.

Norwood Community Wardens, a hugely successful pilot scheme of 12 wardens that will now be made permanent from April 2006 as part of the rollout of council wardens across the borough.

Lib Dems have got the council to invest £16.7m to resurface and repair roads and pavements across Lambeth, including Norwood Road, Knight's Hill and Norwood High Street - which hadn't been redone since 1968 after 30 years of Labour misrule! The budget for road and pavements repairs is now six times what it was when Labour ran the council.

We're working with the rail operators to invest in and renovate the area around Tulse Hill Station and make it a safer place to be with better lighting and CCTV.

Delivering the first parent-promoted secondary school, in West Norwood. Lib Dems are strongly committed to expanding school places in Norwood and across the borough, while Labour - which closed Norwood Park Primary School on Gipsy Road when they ran the council - only want to fund more school places in central Brixton.

Delivering improved youth facilities, as well as tough measures like dispersal orders to tackle anti-social behaviour

£175,000 invested in the council's winter maintenance service to make sure that Norwood's hilly roads stay safe and clear of snow and ice after several harsh winters when not enough was done.

We've delivered funding for a host of environmental and community safety improvements like

• The Knight's Hill crossing

• Improvements to Tulse Hill Station and the Rosendale shopping area

• A mobile CCTV camera for police surveillance and use by the council

• Speed signs on Norwood Road and elsewhere

• Regeneration of the West Norwood Industrial Area

• Pedestrian crossing upgrades at the Norwood High Street/Auckland Hill and Norwood Road/York Hill/Lancaster Avenue junctions.

Massive investment in Norwood's parks - and the council's annual parks repair and maintenance budget has been increased from around £225,000 to £640,000 to allow more repair work to be done as it's needed.

Over the last four years Lambeth projects have been allocated £2m from the Crystal Palace Partnership, delivering improvements like the Berridge Road Community Resource Centre, better services at Upper Norwood Joint Library, restoration of the Old Library for community use in partnership with West Norwood Community Development, and an Estate Skills Partnership Project for work placement opportunities - with on the job training - for local residents.